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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
March 15, 1973
Conversation No. 880-3

Date: March 15, 1973
Time: 11:58 am-12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

President’s press conference
-Watergate
-Court tests
-Ziegler’s future comments
-President's comments
-Restrictions on White House commentary
-Cooperation with Congress
-Record of administration
-Alger Hiss case
-Press sensitivity
-Unknown reporter's question
-Ed Kempler
-Press bias
-Comparison to Pentagon Papers case
-Issues of case
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Conversation No. 880-3 (cont’d)


-White House position with press
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-President's handling of questions characterized
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Stockpiling
-Food prices
-Importance of story
-Aid to India and Pakistan
-Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Executive privilege
-Committee to Reelect the President
-Responsibility
-Kempler’s question
-Hiss case
-Cooperation with Congress
-Hiss case
-Issues
-Press obsessions
-Hostility to administration and presidency
-Bias against President
-Comparison to treatment of John F. Kennedy
-Ziegler’s response

Ziegler left at 12:05 pm.
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